• Reinforce the capacity building efforts of financial regulators to ensure that they keep up with the rapidly changing financial inclusion landscape and mitigate underlying risks.
• Deepen the understanding of policy and regulatory approaches that enhance innovative financial services in Africa.
• Reinforce the dialogue with private sector players and other related stakeholders through AFI’s public-private dialogue in Africa and other forms of cooperation.
• Strengthen cooperation between financial and telecommunication regulators on issues related to digital financial services (DFS).
• Deepen the understanding and learning of approaches for interoperable schemes or models to inform effective policy interventions for interoperability that support financial inclusion.
• Promote DFS for agricultural micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and deepen the understanding of policy reforms to support agricultural finance.
• Promote inclusive policies for women, especially by leveraging new technologies and promoting the adoption of regulations and financial consumer protection frameworks to advance women’s economic participation.
• Strengthen synergies between microfinance institutions and DFS providers.
• Facilitate the adoption of policy and regulatory approaches to enhance consumer protection for digital credit in Africa.

• Coordinate the formulation of financial inclusion policies that address regional challenges.
• Harmonize policies and regulatory approaches to deepen financial inclusion in Africa.
• Facilitate high-level discussions among leaders to provide strategic guidance that addresses financial inclusion challenges in Africa.
• Enhance in-country implementation of financial inclusion policies in Africa.
• Share regional financial inclusion lessons with the wider AFI network.
• Elevate the regional voice on key financial inclusion policy issues in Africa.

AfPI is part of the AFI network and any AFI member institution in Africa can participate in AfPI activities. AfPI operates under a governance structure consisting of the leaders’ roundtable, the chair and EGFIP. The chair serves for a two-year term and is replaced by the vice-chair at the end of the term. A new vice-chair is then elected.

AfPI activities are implemented and coordinated through the following mechanism:

• AFPI LEADERS’ ROUNDTABLE
  AfPI leaders, high-level policymakers and regulators meet at an annual roundtable to discuss policy issues and provide strategic guidance. They also convene on the sidelines of the AFI Global Policy Forum to discuss other urgent matters.
• AfPI CHAIR
  The chair provides leadership and guidance to EGFIP to ensure a smooth and successful implementation of the activities, and represents AfPI in its relations with governments and other entities.
• EGFIP
  A group of senior officials from AFI member that undertakes the technical implementation of AfPI activities. They provide insight on policy and regulatory approaches to help address pertinent regional and sub-regional challenges on enhancing financial inclusion in Africa. Institutions that are members of EGFIP rotate within each sub-region every three years. AFI Management Unit coordinates the organization of meetings with leaders and EGFIP.

• 10 AfPI leaders’ roundtables.
• 11 capacity building workshops.
• Facilitation of eight peer advisory programs on the in-country implementation of financial inclusion strategies.
• AFI’s regional office in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, established to strengthen the institutionalization of AfPI and support regional efforts.
• “Framework for Innovative Cross-border Remittances in Africa” to address the challenges of uptake and usage of innovative cross-border remittances and to enhance efficiency of cross-border remittances in Africa.
• “Framework for DFS Interoperability in Africa” to drive usage of financial services through interoperable platforms and schemes and to enhance DFS efficiencies, increase customer convenience and boost scale for both domestic and cross-border payments.
• “Cooperative Arrangement Framework with Telecommunications Regulators” adopted for DFS.
• “Policy Framework for Responsible Digital Credit”
• “Policy Framework for Enhancing MSME Financing Ecosystem in Africa”
• “Policy Framework to strengthen agent networks for DFS
• “Policy Catalogue of MSME Financing in the African Region”